Going Bovine is an amazing novel written by Libba Bray and
it is now easily my favorite novel of all time! The plot follows a high school
junior Cameron Smith who discovers that he has a life threatening disease. However,
there is a chance that he can survive. All he has to do is help a pink haired
punk angel save the universe. Thankfully, he doesn’t have to go at it alone.
Tagging along is a gamer dwarf named Gonzo and a lawn gnome? At the end of this
dark humored journey that very well be the mother of all road trips Cameron and
maybe even you, reader will find that, what you’re looking for isn’t always
what you need.
Cameron only wants one thing to coast through high
school…and life. But then he starts hearing things and seeing thing that don’t
make sense, things only he can see. After a while he is given the grave news he
is sick and he is going to die. Just as he giving up on all the life he has
left a pink haired punk angel girl tells him the reason he is sick is because
he is being affected by dark matter. Now he has to go out find the dark matter
send it back to where ever it came from and stop the universe from killing
itself. On the way he recruits a sheltered nerdy gamer dwarf and a lawn gnome
to help him save the world and himself.
I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone! This
book has a dark sense of humor which to some is a little disturbing but that
humor is what makes this book a top grade novel. Just go a little past that
humor and it is promised that any reader will find a touching tale that may
give you a better different perspective of life and yourself.
Book Review by Morgan D.
